The US scientists have triumphantly eliminated HIV from mice which were transplanted with infected human immune cells, in the first study to successfully achieve this in an infected animal. A previous study by a team was done in 2016 in which the HIV was eliminated from cells in lab dishes. To do so, the scientists used the gene editing tool called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR). The new study from Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh builds up on the aforementioned study done by the same team. The new study which claims to eliminate the HIV from 'humanised' mice can be of much help in India and many places where the epidemic is causing problems.

Source: India Today May 03, 2017 09:33 UTC